We swapped over to DigitalGov Search from the native WordPress search for better searching of tags and authors, but also because we plan to use feeds from our tags to revamp the currently messy, non-scalable Resources page. Don’t believe us, just watch!

Articles on DigitalGov.gov have informed the research agenda for Deloitte, Gartner and Forrester. It’s where all the smart people go to learn about trends and practices, don’t you know?

People love behind the scenes stuff. So, under the hood, DigitalGov.gov uses the WordPress-Enlightened theme with some clever CSS hacks and is hosted on sites.usa.gov. Yes, we are eating our own dogfood—or maybe drinking our own champagne! #betteranalogy

The project to combine four related properties into DigitalGov.gov was initiated in September 2013. Just after we convened our internal team–WHOMP!, the government shut down for most of October. We picked back up and soft launched in three months: design, UI content integration, build. Yes, we roll that hard.

We’ve only been “visited” by legal once. But that was a four attorney alarm! Hot!

The death of email is greatly exaggerated. We get as much traffic from subscriber emails as we do from Google. Also, our referrals from social media continues to grow. At the risk of sounding like Sally Field at her Oscar win: Follow us! Like us!

Less than 4% of you use the site search. “Terms of Service” is your #1 query, but you are more likely to search for three of our authors than for “responsive Web design.” Hmmmmm.

Comments!?! The community listserves (you can sign up from here) are a-buzz with comments and sharing, but we just don’t see that much discussion on posts. We’re not intending on turning them off, but it’d be nice to hear from you once in a while.